UNLOCK YOUR INNER PICASSO WITH COLORS! 3D

16
th April 2012 – Pick up your stylus and
shut away your easel because now you can master real painting
techniques on your Nintendo 3DS.
Colors! 3D, available on the
Nintendo eShop this week, is
a simple to use but surprisingly deep painting application, built
specially for use with your Nintendo 3DS touch screen.

Whether you are looking to sketch, paint, or draw,
Colors! 3D is your perfect digital sketchbook.
Catering to everyone from serious artists to aimless doodlers you
can now connect to the online
Colors! 3D gallery and share your masterpieces
with the world or paint with a friend on the same canvas using
Nintendo 3DS Local Play.

Also available to play this week is
GO Series: Escape Trick
Convenience Store, on Nintendo DSiWare, which tasks
you with using everyday objects found in a local shop to solve a
mystery, while
Rush Rush Rally Racing on WiiWare brings some
classic top down 2D racing to Wii.

For the very first time on Nintendo 3DS, you are able to
purchase video content, via the Nintendo eShop, and keep it on your
Nintendo 3DS for as long as you wish! The first clip,
The3D Machine, is the story of a brilliant inventor
who finally makes a breakthrough creating a wondrous invention only
to leave it in the hands of his incapable assistant leading to
wealth and love, but inevitably ending in a catastrophe.

Check out all the latest offerings which are available for
download this Thursday via Nintendo eShop, Nintendo DSi Shop and
the Wii Shop Channel below.

Game Description: Colors! 3D is simple to use but
has some powerful painting tools. You can learn modern painting
techniques or simply colour in existing images depending on your
skill level. Colors! 3D is tailored for touch screen devices like
the Nintendo 3DS and allows you to create and view your own 3D
paintings for the very first time.

Video Description:3D Machine, the first paid for video download on Nintendo 3DS,
is here this week! After an inventor makes a breakthrough, he
leaves his incapable assistant alone with his new wonder invention,
which leads to wealth, love...and catastrophe!

The
SpotPass™ feature on Nintendo 3DS allows you to
automatically receive a host of exciting content such as 3D videos
for
Nintendo Video ™, notifications, add-on data for
your software and system updates without lifting a finger. SpotPass
content can be received automatically and free of charge from
thousands of supported public Wi-Fi access points across Europe and
through wireless broadband internet connections at home. It works
even if the system is in Sleep Mode.

Available this week, exclusively for Nintendo 3DS owners, is the
seventh in a series of highly anticipated
Shaun the Sheep 3D clips created for the very first time in 3D by
Aardman Animations, the multi-award winning creators of
Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit. The seventh clip
titled,
Members Only, sees a very curious Farmer after he hears strange noises
coming from a hay stack and goes to explore, but the Flock
isn’t about to reveal its secret.

The sixth part in a series of
Kid Icarus Anime clips is also available this week via
Nintendo Video, exclusively for Nintendo 3DS owners. The sixth clip
is part two of the third episode titled,
Palutena’s Revolting Dinner, which centres on the
goddess Palutena and her attempts to deal with a great catastrophe
in her Skyworld home.

Keep up to date with all the official Nintendo announcements and
exclusive new game information by following the official Nintendo
of Europe Twitter feed @NintendoEurope

ENDS

Note to Editors:

The Nintendo eShop is a digital store for Nintendo 3DS owners
that provides access to a wide variety of free & paid for
downloadable content each Thursday, which includes –

·
Original 3D software

· Virtual
Console - A range of games from classic platforms including Game
Boy™, NES™, and SEGA Game Gear

·
Extensive library of Nintendo DSiWare™games.

Visitors can also view video game trailers, screenshots and
product information for games, including those available at retail
locations.

In order for Nintendo 3DS owners to gain access to the Nintendo
eShop, a system update must be performed via a wireless broadband
internet connection. To perform the free and simple recommended
system update, Nintendo 3DS users can simply:

Start the “System Settings” from the Home
Menu,

Select “Other Settings” and scroll the page right
to select “System Update.”

Those who perform the system update will gain access to the
Nintendo eShop and will be able to download the new Nintendo
Video™ application for free, providing access to a range of
new and exclusive 2D and 3D video content on their Nintendo 3DS
system.

Nintendo eShop users can also download for free, the new
Pokédex™3D application. Start collecting data for more than 150
Pokémon
™ from the
Pokémon Black and
Pokémon White Version games. This new application
lets users see each Pokémon in 3D with animated motion and
sound.

The system update will also provide users with access to a free
Internet Browser, the ability to receive SpotPass content from
supported public WiFi hotspots across Europe, as well as providing
Nintendo DSi
™ and Nintendo DSi
™ XL owners the ability to easily transfer
most of their previously purchased Nintendo DSiWare games to their
Nintendo 3DS systems.

Users can also add funds to their virtual wallets using their
credit card or a Nintendo eShop Card, browse the selections and
then click to download the games they want.

Nintendo eShop Cards are now being roll out at various stores
across Europe. You have the choice of several denominations for
Nintendo eShop Cards.

With an increasing number of shops stocking the Nintendo eShop
Cards, it will become ever more convenient for Nintendo users
to make use of this easy payment method over the coming weeks,
especially as Nintendo eShop Cards become available in
supermarkets, book shops and many other convenient locations.

As with any pre-paid option, the Nintendo eShop Cards are
activated at the point of purchase. When a user purchases a card at
any sales point, the code will be activated and the credit will
become available. The 16-digit code on the reverse side can be
entered into any one of the following:

Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS

Wii Shop Channel

Nintendo DSi Shop

Afterwards, you can begin shopping immediately.

As the Nintendo eShop, Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo DSi Shop
are continually updated with games and applications each Thursday;
make sure you keep checking the Nintendo eShop, Nintendo DSi Shop,
Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo Channel for all the latest news and
releases on already available and upcoming games and
applications.

Nintendo 3DS offers Parental Controls so that parents can
control the level of 3D their children can view on the Nintendo 3DS
as well as the content they can access. Nintendo 3DS also features
a 3D depth slider which lets players turn off or adjust the level
of 3D they want on the 3D Screen, two built-in screens for
different functionality, a Circle Pad which provides a full 360
degrees of direction, a built-in motion sensor and gyro sensor. It
is equipped with three cameras (two of which are facing outwards to
allow the taking of 3D pictures and 3D videos), houses a 2GB SD
Memory Card and is compatible with AR Cards which come packaged
with Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo 3DS is also backwards compatible with
all existing Nintendo DS games, which can be played in 2D on your
Nintendo 3DS system. For more information about these features and
other options, visit:
www.nintendo3ds.co.uk

About Nintendo

The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive
entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures
and markets hardware and software for its Wii™ home console,
Nintendo 3DS™ and Nintendo DS™ family of portable
systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment
System™, Nintendo has sold more than 3.9 billion video games
and more than 620 million hardware units globally, including the
current-generation Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo
DSi™ and Nintendo DSi™ XL, as well as the Game
Boy™, Game Boy Advance™, Super NES™,
Nintendo® 64 and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. It has also
created industry icons that have become well-known, household names
such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™,
Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned
subsidiary, Nintendo of Europe, based in Grossostheim, Germany, was
established in 1990 and serves as headquarters for Nintendo's
operations in Europe.

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